Martial Arts
Fourteen Freeze-Frames of 0.133 Points: Vietnam's Dương Thúy Vi and the Arithmetic of a Last Cycle in Wushu Taolu
Vietnam's Kata Gold: The 5-0 Score, the 'First Gold' Puzzle and the Medal-Table Illusion
The Scorecard Nobody Printed: Vietnam's 5-0 and the Ledger Karate Federations Never Publish
Vietnam at the Edge of the Lei Tai: Four Bronzes in a Day and the Arithmetic of a Promised Silver
Martial ArtsVietnam at the Edge of the Lei Tai: Four Bronzes in a Day and the Arithmetic of a Promised SilverFor two September days the flashboard in the wushu hall carried the word...
Martial ArtsFourteen Freeze-Frames of 0.133 Points: Vietnam's Dương Thúy Vi and the Arithmetic of a Last Cycle in Wushu TaoluHook: three numbers and a breath The board held three figures, and the widest...
Martial ArtsTwelve Years of Bronze: Duong Thuy Vi and the Quiet Ledger of Wushu TaoluHook: That Fraction on the Scoreboard After the spear routine ended, the numb...
Martial ArtsFour Bronzes, One Final: Reading Vietnam's Wushu Results Through Four GatesOn the night of September 23, Vietnamese sports pages filled with a single...
Martial ArtsFrom Four Teams to Eight: The Real Scoreboard Behind Vietnam's Kata GoldVietnam has two Asian Games golds in women's team kata. On the scoreboard the...
Martial ArtsThe Two-Month CEO and the Seventeen Million Viewers: The Empty Rows in the PFL–MVP LedgerOn July 30, when the merger was announced, nobody expected the man who signed...
Martial ArtsVietnam's Kata Gold: The 5-0 Score, the 'First Gold' Puzzle and the Medal-Table IllusionThe chairs in the stands at the Aichi-Nagoya venue were already being stacked...
Martial ArtsThe Scorecard Nobody Printed: Vietnam's 5-0 and the Ledger Karate Federations Never PublishKarate has an odd property — its results live in numbers, but the numbers...
Martial ArtsA Two-Month CEO, a January Brand: The Ledger of Silence Around the PFL–MVP MergerTwo dates sit side by side in my notebook, and they will not stop talking. Th...
Martial ArtsFive-Zero, One Trio: Vietnam's Kata Gold and the Ledger That Stays IncompleteThree lines on a judges' sheet, and all three speak the same language: 5-0,...